The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.
@pluralistic There's some discussion how "management", as in MBA programs, is taught as a set of skills abstracted from any concrete application, and this has led to managers who see their job as telling people who know the concrete specific details that they're wrong.
I wonder if something similar is happening with designers.